This weekend makes twice in the last year I've been painfully bitten by bugs while doing photography.
I was first bitten by a wasp last summer wile standing on a beach at Lake Tahoe at 11:00 pm. What kind of wasp bites people in the middle of the night? The resulting picture is here:
Then just this past Sunday while I was lying on my belly in a field I picked up a tick that burrowed into my torso. I was only on my belly for one photo so I'm pretty sure I know exactly which picture I was taking when I picked this guy up:
That picture was taken after expert extraction by my lovely wife. Her comment was "are you going to pass out now?" (I didn't) I find it ironic that I was on a field trip for a class on shooting macro photography when I picked this up, giving me the perfect opportunity to take a picture of something very small! The picture above is really just a snapshot taken quickly in the kitchen - not a lot of setup involved. It's not exactly professional quality, but I wasn't really in my right frame of mind at the time.
The picture I was taking while lying on his home is here:
Also not really top-rate but I'm including it here for completeness' sake. I guess this is all the more reason to spend $200 and pick up the Canon angle view finder attachment - because sometimes kneeing is way better than lying down on your belly...